Feminist Interpretation of ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ by Adrienne Rich

Feminist Interpretation of ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ by Adrienne Rich

Authors

  • Dharmesh P Vavaiya

Keywords:

Patriarchy, gender biases, art and women, women’s roles, individuality, feminist concerns

Abstract

“Being a woman is terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

                                                                                                                                               - Joseph Conrad

Feminist literature is a process of self - discovery, self - assertion, and self – reliance. Margaret Fuller was the first American woman to assert her uniqueness and limitations in a patriarchal system in her book Women in the Nineteenth Century(1845). In the twentieth century Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson etc. imitated the feminist consciousness movement in literature. In America too this movement was gathering force. As a poet and theorist, Adrienne Rich has vast impact on contemporary American literature. This article tries to read the above poem with regards to Feminist concerns in it. Rich’s innate talents and her will to change gender biases is the main concern of this poem that this article will try to analyze. 

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Gelpi, Albert and Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi. Adrienne Rich’s Poetry, New York: Norton, 1975.

Gilbert Sandra M. and Susan Gubar, eds. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English. New York: Norton, 1985.

Rich, Adrienne. Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems 1954-1962”. Collected Early Poems 1950 – 1970. 1st ed. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1993.

Woolf, Virginia Modern Fiction, Collected Essays, Vol. 2

Additional Files

Published

10-08-2019

How to Cite

Dharmesh P Vavaiya. (2019). Feminist Interpretation of ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ by Adrienne Rich. Vidhyayana - An International Multidisciplinary Peer-Reviewed E-Journal - ISSN 2454-8596, 5(1). Retrieved from https://vidhyayanaejournal.org/journal/article/view/1554
Loading...